Canthecona insularis, (Canthecona)

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5232 (1), pp. 1-105 : 50

insularis (Canthecona) Kirby 1891: 79. [ Figs 88–89 ]

Original data: “ Ceylon ”: “Pundaloya” (“ E. Ernest Green ”). [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “ Pundalova [sic, with “y” handwritten in blue after “ Ceylon.”] Ceylon.”; “ Ceylon. Green Coll. 91–29”; “ Canthecona insularis Kb. cotype”; “L//1”; “NHMUK 010592157”. Fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres, and middle and posterior left legs missing ( Fig. 88 ) .

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Pundaloya Ceylon.”; “ Ceylon. Green Coll 91–26”; “ Canthecona insularis Kb. type figd.”; “NHMUK 010592158”. Specimen well preserved ( Fig. 89 ) .

Current status: Cantheconidea javana ( Dallas, 1851) (synonymised to Canthecona cognata Distant, 1882 by Distant 1900a: 58, which itself was synonymised to C. javana Dallas, 1851 by Breddin 1903: 203; see Schouteden 1907: 45).

Figures

FIGURES 81–88. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 81–82, Strachia hamata; 83, Canthecona humeralis; 84, Bodetria indecora; 85, Macrorhaphis infuscata; 86, Moyara insignis; 87, Podisus insignis; 88, Canthecona insularis. Scale bars: 4 mm.

FIGURES 89–96. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 89, Canthecona insularis; 90, Cazira internexa; 91, Arma invaria; 92, Glypsus javanus; 93, Platynopus laetus; 94–95, Arma lateralis; 96, Asopus leprosus. Scale bars: 4 mm.